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Longdon, who, without his glasses, stared straight at the floor while Mr. Cashmore talked to him. She pursued, however, dispassionately enough: "He must be of a narrowness !" "Oh beautiful!" She was silent again. "I shall broaden him. YOU won't." "Heaven forbid!" Vanderbank heartily concurred. "But none the less, as I've said, I'll help you." Her attention was still fixed.
Longdon appeared to accept his prospect of isolation with a certain gravity. "I gather from you I've gathered indeed from Mr. Vanderbank that you're a little sort of a set that hang very much together." "Oh yes; not a formal association nor a secret society still less a 'dangerous gang' or an organisation for any definite end.
"You 'feel' as if I did but the reality is just that I don't. The day I overwhelm you, Mr. Van !" She let that pass, however; there was too much to say about it and there was something else much simpler. "Girls understand now. It has got to be faced, as Tishy says." "Oh well," Vanderbank laughed, "we don't require Tishy to point that out to us.
She's incapable of anything deliberately nasty." "Oh of anything nasty in any way," Vanderbank said musingly and kindly. "Yes; one knows on the whole what she WON'T do." After which, for a period, Mitchy roamed and reflected. "But in spite of the assurance given you by Mr.
"I'm afraid I hadn't recovered at all hadn't, if that's what you mean, got over my misery and my melancholy. She knew I hadn't and that was what was nice of her. She was a person with whom I could talk about her." Vanderbank took a moment to clear up the ambiguity. "Oh you mean you could talk about the OTHER. You hadn't got over Lady Julia." Mr. Longdon sadly smiled at him.
It only matters for girls," he plausibly continued "and then only for those on whom no one takes pity." "The trouble is," said Vanderbank but quite as if uttering only a general truth "that it's just a thing that may sometimes operate as a bar to pity. Isn't it for the non-marrying girls that it doesn't particularly matter? For the others it's such an odd preparation." "Oh I don't mind it!"
"Ah but why SHOULD it?" Nanda spoke again, however, before he could reply. "I dare say that when she wrote to you she didn't know." "Know you'd come bang up to meet me?" Vanderbank laughed. "Jolly at any rate, thanks to my mistake, to have in this way a quiet moment with you. You came on ahead of your mother?" "Oh no I'm staying here." "Oh!" said Vanderbank. "Mr.
On this, with a drop of his mirth, he met her eyes, and for an instant, through the superficial levity of their talk, they might have appeared to sound each other. It lasted till Mrs. Brook went on: "I should really like not to lose him." Vanderbank seemed to understand and at last said: "I think you won't lose him."
Mitchy had been watching his friend, who, a few minutes before perceptibly embarrassed, had quite recovered himself and, at his ease, though still perhaps with a smile a trifle strained, leaned back and let his eyes play everywhere but over the faces of the others. Vanderbank evidently wished now to show a good-humoured detachment.
"She says nothing to me at all." "She says nothing to any one," Mrs. Brook serenely replied; "that's just her type and her charm just above all her education." Then she appealed to Vanderbank. "Won't Mr. Longdon be struck with little Aggie and won't he find it interesting to talk about all that sort of thing with the Duchess?" Vanderbank came back laughing, but Mr. Longdon anticipated his reply.
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